Derailer



.I. H. H AMMONTRE.

DERAILER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3, 1921.

Patented July 18, 1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patignfgd July 13 1922 Application filed January 3, 1921. Serial No. 434,623.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1. JOHN H. l-Liutroy'rnn a citizen of the United States residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Derailei's, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide a derailer for a car, particularly adapted to be employed in a branch line leading from a main line of a railway system, so that it will be necessary for one of the train crew of a train about to move on to the main line from the branch line, to manually move the derailer into inoperative position before the train can move on to the main line.

In devices of this character as heretofore constructed, the derailer removes an entire truck of a car from the tracks so that considerable time and energy is necessary to replace the car truck upon the rails.

My invention provides means whereby the movement of a car is as efliciently stopped as by the derailers now in use, but by means of which only one wheel of a. car is removed from the track so that it may be replaced upon the track through the expenditure of considerable less time and energy.

The invention will be readily understood from the following description of the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure l is a perspective view showing a portion of a branch line and havmg the mproved derailer employed in connection with one of the tracks.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, I have shown usual rails l of a branch line mounted upon usual cross ties 2 as by spikes 3.

Usual derailing mechanism is employed including a casing 4 mounted upon an eXtension of one of the ties 2, and having an operating handle 5 and a signalling; standard 6 projecting above the same. An operatlng lever 7 projects from the base of easing i and is actuated through manual operation of handle 5. This lever is connected to the usual operating rod 8 slidable in a bearing 9 suitably supported upon the ties.

The improved derailing mechanism includes a block 10 mounted between ties 2 beneath opera-ting rod 8 and bearing plates 11 mounted upon the ties at the sides of block 10 and extending laterally from one of the rails 1.

The section of this rail which is above block 10 and the bearing plates 11 is separate from the rail 1. This rail section is shown at 12. It islaterally shittable out of alinement withthe rail proper by-a connection provided between operating rod 8 and said rail connection, and when thuslaterally shifted, it is adapted to slide on to bearing plates 11 as shown in dotted lines in Fig; 1

The connection provided between rod 8 and the removable rail section includes a transverse arm 13 upon the end of the operating rod and having angularly disposed ends M received through the removable rail section and connected thereto by means of nuts 15 threaded on to said angula-rly disposed ends.

By the construction as thus set forth it will be seen that actuation of handle 5 will reciprocate opera-ting rod 8, so as to move the removable rail section either into or out of alinement with the rail proper. hen the rail section is in alinement with the rail, the car wheels will move over the same in usual manner, but when the rail section is out of alinement one of the car wheels will drop upon block 10 and thereby stop the car. The removable rail is formed with an inclined joint 20 between one end of the same and the rail proper, so that when the removable section is out of alinement with the rail, one end of the latter forms an inclined end. The removable rail section is of sufficient length to derail one car wheel only. and as a consequence, in order to replace the car wheel upon the track, it is only necessary to back the car so that the derailed wheel will run up the inclined end of the rail and back onto the track. The detachable rail section is then moved back into alinement with the rail proper.

Various changes may be made without departing; from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed is:

l. A derailer for a track including actuating mechanism for the same and a section of a track rail removable by said actuating means to cause the wheel of a car upon said track to drop from the rail, the joint between said rail proper and removable section forming an inclined end for the rail proper.

2. A derailer for a track including actuating mechanism for the same and asection of a track rail removable by said actuating means to cause the wheel of a car upon said track to drop from the rail, the joint between said rail proper and removable section forming means for allowing said wheel to be run joint between one end of said bodily movable rail section and the adjacent track rail section being inclined.

.5. In a derailer, a rail section normally positioned between the adjacent ends of track rails, said rail section being bodily movable laterally with respect to said track railsloetween which it is positioned, the oint between one end of said bodily movable rail section and the adjacent track rail section being inclined, and a plate arranged beneath the ends of the track rail section and extending laterally therefrom to form a support for the bodily movable rail section when the same is shifted away from the track rails.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN H. HAMMONTRE. 

